OPINION: Company tax cuts and RMA reform later in the year would be much too late.

OPINION: National, Act, NZ First and even Labour could achieve a historic agreement.

The Beehive plans to spend the whole year on a rolling maul of announcements.

OPINION: Luxon's State of the Nation speech should outline urgent, bold reform.

Opinion: Much attention follows Treaty Principles Bill, but voters tell a different story.

OPINION: New Nato rule would require NZ to spend about $10b a year more on defence.

OPINION: Five of the top columns of the year from Matthew Hooton.

A whole new approach is needed when we return from holidays.

OPINION: Willis urged to adopt drastic spending cuts to avoid economic catastrophe.

OPINION: Expect a construction boom with less risk of corruption than feared.

OPINION: The Government seems to prefer to sit on its hands.

OPINION: Extending their term will just give politicians another year for working groups.

OPINION: From economy to race relations to health, the PM has failed the leadership test.

OPINION: Economic and fiscal forecasts demand more aggressive reform.

OPINION: Their culture, outlook and interests deserve to be taken seriously.

OPINION: It was the Mexican peso that first indicated Trump was winning US election.

OPINION: Nicola Willis will need to find another $5b a year to meet Trump’s demands.

OPINION: Grant Dalton has been proven right on pretty much everything.

OPINION: Labour voters and senior figures are being targeted to jump ship.

OPINION: Willis and Edmonds both show the substance today’s multiple crises demand,

OPINION: Treasury is sounding the debt alarm - again. Will politicians listen?

OPINION: David Seymour has out-negotiated Christopher Luxon at every turn.

OPINION: The Prime Minister faces crucial decisions as his party and country’s leader.

OPINION: Bishop’s plan will require National and Labour to compromise with each other.

OPINION: Without Chris Hipkins and Megan Woods, Labour would look renewed.

OPINION: Short-term, all the economic numbers point in the right electoral direction.

From prisons to profits: the moral and fiscal case for social investment.

OPINION: Willis’ proposal honours Jim Anderton and Trevor Mallard’s vision.

OPINION: National Party conference delegates need to push for radical reform.

OPINION: Ministers are frustrated that mandarins remain stuck in the do-nothing era.

OPINION: Should NZ continue our pro-Nato push if Trump plans to wreck it?

OPINION: Willis should release memo she says shows that tax cuts aren't inflationary.

OPINION: The new Government plan is a start, but no more.

OPINION: High immigration should keep a floor on the market.

OPINION: Interest rate cuts may not happen until election year.

OPINION: New Zealand has put itself on a path to bankruptcy since 2008.

OPINION: Danger lies ahead if process appears politicised in any way.

OPINION: The Budget isn’t one a serious Government would have presented.

OPINION: Luxon lumbered Willis and National with a tax policy that was instantly panned.

OPINION: A broad definition of sustainability offers the Greens a compelling theme.

OPINION: As the Luxon Government fails, the Opposition needs someone who will step up.

OPINION: Act is at risk of supporting a Govt that will never put the books back in order.

OPINION: Performance management for ministers could transform Government.

OPINION: With the dire need to cut costs, agencies should have to justify why they exist.

OPINION: New Zealanders need to engage more seriously in the risks ahead.

OPINION: Argentina was one of the world's richest countries until it borrowed too much.

OPINION: Winston Peters has done more than anyone to ensure NZ has allies backing us.

OPINION: Winston Peters will not allow National to blow out the deficit and inflation.

OPINION: Luxon’s approach might work in a corporate, but not in bureaucracy.

OPINION: Luxon's allowance fiasco is a metaphor for wider fiscal complacency.

OPINION: Government suggests an Auckland of 3.4 million would be 15 per cent better off.

OPINION: Local initiatives rather than corporate welfare back in vogue.

OPINION: It can't afford to sit back and let the Coalition implode.

OPINION: The PM has already ruled out controversial bill from becoming law.

OPINION: The Prime Minister has yet to set the clear direction any government needs.

OPINION: Christopher Luxon has described the bill as “divisive and unhelpful”.

OPINION: Luxon is now obliged to deliver.

OPINION: Clark judged that all Washington’s friends, including NZ, ought to help.

OPINION: But Labour’s best bet remains Hipkins and the status quo.

OPINION: Complete disengagement from school is growing and average performance is falling.

OPINION: This week’s $7.5b in cuts can only be phase one.

OPINION: Sufficient progress in New Delhi is needed to justify irritating Beijing.

OPINION: The National Party high-flyer is NZ's long-term productivity czar.

OPINION: Opportunity is there for the PM to extend that laissez-faire management approach.

OPINION: Every day’s delay will only make it tougher to do what needs to be done.

OPINION: Luxon's skills displayed in business haven't translated to political leadership.

OPINION: And why Labour was right to stick with Chris Hipkins.

OPINION: And breaking down where the special votes might fall.

OPINION: NZ First leader’s latest tweets mark a point of no return.

OPINION: Three parties agree on defence and crime — not so tax and the Treaty.

OPINION: Never before have New Zealanders so decisively demanded a radical new direction.

OPINION: Captain Luxon's two bad calls.

OPINION: Businesspeople should spend less time waiting for help from Wellington.

OPINION: Green Party strategists would be wise to plan their response when Luxon calls.

OPINION: National has no one to blame for its tax-policy fiasco but itself.

OPINION: National will have to move fast and slash spending to head off a fiscal crisis.

OPINION: Labour and National are sinking, so how about Seymour or Shaw for PM?

OPINION: Savings must be used to repay our growing debt, not to buy off voters.